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I don't know what's happened to me. I think I've doubled the last month's posts today, but I was reading Salon's review of two books of writing about sex, and I feel the need to share that I literally did not understand this sentence -- "Perhaps I'm simply unenlightened, but I've never quite understood the desire to turn to writing for the same reasons one would turn to, say, pornography ..." until I read it a few times. I did not comprehend that for this man (are you surprised?) pornography and writing were non-overlapping categories. Also, Salon should really get a better title for the review. "The Joy of Writing Sex" is a little tired, don't you think? The books themselves sounded interesting, though.
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Let us know if you get them and like them cuz I was hugely disappointed in a UCLA seminar on writing sex in that the novelist speaker was quite simply unerotic and I begin to wonder if "people telling you how to write porn" and "hot" were themselves non-overlapping categories...
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No, they are not. See my post today (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mecurtin/293750.html) about
The interesting question for me is, "Why does Resonant know so much more about writing sex than these so-called pros do?" Or at least she knows a lot more than the author of that Salon article does.
I'm now all curious to see a review of these anthologies by someone whose opinions I trust (e.g. Rivka*g*), and in particular how well they do on the "Resonant Scale of Porn Writing".
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